Obamacare author says it will cause most employers to stop offering insurance

No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people If you like your health care plan, youll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

However, just now – four years after Obama signed Obamacare, and more than a year after the 2012 election, the New York Times is reporting that one of the authors of Obamacare is saying that it will cause most employers to stop offering insurance. The New York Times reports:

Why Employers Will Stop Offering Health Insurance

March 26, 2016

Heres a prediction: By 2025, fewer than 20 percent of workers in the private sector will receive traditional employer-sponsored health insurance. The source of this claim? Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, in his just-published book, Reinventing American Health Care.

Dr. Emanuel is an accomplished oncologist, medical ethicist and academic (and contributing opinion writer to The New York Times). And, of course, hes no stranger to politics: He helped craft the Affordable Care Act as a health policy adviser to the Obama administration, when his brother, Rahm, now the mayor of Chicago, was chief of staff.

… he argues, the so-called Cadillac tax on especially generous health plans, set to take effect in 2018, will help pave the way by discouraging companies from offering those plans.

This is typical of the sneaky, underhanded, lying Obama and his entire administration. In order to get a law passed, and in order to get elected, Obama lies about what he will do in the future. Then in the future, only after the legislation has passed, and only after Obama has won the election, do we find out the truth.

It’s also typical of the biased, Obama supporting, mainstream media, which refused to analyze the Obamacare legislation to discover this information on their own. If the New York Times had done its job properly, they would have had their legal experts read and analyze the Obamacare legislation four years ago, and would have reported at that time that it would cause most employers to stop offering insurance. But the New York Times did not do its job. Instead, they allowed Obama to go unchallenged in his repeated lies that people could keep their insurance. And now that the New York Times is finally reporting this information, it’s too late for anyone to do anything about it – Obamacare has already passed, and Obama has already run in as many elections as he is allowed.

Government price and wage controls during WW2 are what put most employers in the business of providing health insurance anyway ... they did it as a perk because they couldn’t offer more money due to wage controls ... now 70 years later another government manipulation takes business out of providing health care ...

The moral of the a story is, we are all manipulated puppets of this government ...

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posted on 03/26/2014 11:29:56 AM PDT
by spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)

Has it somehow become illegal for a private individual to enter directly into a contract agreement with a corporation for the express purpose of securing “insurance” for such things as reimbursement for medical expenses?

I think that’s the point, but not for the reason that most people think. Big Business wants OUT from under onerous health insurance costs. Big Insurance wants to STAY in business. So you force people to buy insurance once their employer shuts it down. It’s a tidy system.

The only thing positive about this is that just as many obama loving liberals will lose their insurance as intelligent hard working conservatives. That’s the part that sucks. But it will be funny to watch the liberals cry.

0bamacare was, from the very outset, an exercise in institutionalizing the incrementalism that has been the hallmark of the left since the New (Raw?) Deal.
The fact that it was built on a ‘timeline’ of implementation should have been a warning to the world that this thing smelled of government overreach. That part of it have since been postponed, rescheduled, and exempt-able should also have been a warning that it won’t stand on its own, even with three years of advanced budgetary set-asides (rrrriiiggghhhttt!). All of this contrived and schemed because even these socialists realized that the nation would NEVER accept it in one fell swoop.
And, now (quack) Dr Zeke admits that it will destroy employer sponsored health insurance by penalizing plans that go well beyond what he and his ilk believe anyone should have (other than themselves, of course).

It is well past time for us to retake this nation and push this fedgov monster back within the confines of the Constitution.

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posted on 03/26/2014 12:23:12 PM PDT
by PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)

I “think” that’s really the answer and I believe that on some of the Commiecrat news websites, I’ve seen their pundits gleefully predict that single payer will be the obvious solution to this disaster.

My wife even asked me today, “What will Hilary do with Obamacare after her installation” and I offered my speculation that she’ll push through single-payer. So, as this disaster unfolds, its going to be interesting to see which model of single-payer Hilary will push and I’ve yet to find a hint on that.

Some liberals are indeed hoping that Obamacare’s failure will lead to single payer, and they may have been hoping from the very start that Obamacare would fail. That may even have been the whole purpose of Obamacare from the very start - created to fail.

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